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Engleman, 26, now an intern at the University of California in San Francisco, believes that his study actually shows prejudice against women, not just woman doctors. To support that conclusion, he cites typical responses. One patient who had never even met a female physician said: "A male knows more and takes his work more seriously. He puts his mind to it. A woman has home problems." Another rationalized: "No, I've never seen a woman doctor, but I resent them anyway. How can they be doctors and raise a family? Chances are they don't do either very...
...because it had accepted partition and taken an oath of allegiance to the crown. Even when Eamon de Valera, a commander of the Easter Rebellion, took over as Free State Prime Minister in 1932, the I.R.A. kept up the struggle. De Valera was ultimately forced to round up and intern many of his old comrades in arms...
...with their lives, never mind their good health. These are more or less the notions behind these two films, both of which purport to be comedies. The medical profession is eminently ripe for a good dissection, but the satire is laid on here with all the clumsiness of an intern at his first operation...
Defense Mechanisms. One recent session centered on Martha and George, the savagely quarrelsome couple in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? "While watching the play," Psychiatrist George Vaillant told the audience, "imagine yourself an intern several years from now. George would enter the hospital yellow with jaundice and with cirrhosis of the liver, the results of his alcoholism. Martha would come in for her third operation for adhesions resulting from stab wounds." During the discussion, Vaillant prompted the students and actors with questions. What were George and Martha angry about? What defense mechanisms did they...
...less interested in solo practice and a big income. None of the new doctors expect to starve, of course, and some interns are even demanding and getting salaries in excess of $10,000 a year. But a growing number of young physicians are seeking partnerships or jobs in which they will work standard hours for salary and share with their colleagues the responsibility of responding to after-hours emergency calls. Says Harold Jaffe, 25, an intern at U.C.L.A...